Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
This is by far the most contentious Congress in my memory. Politics used to be about the art of the deal, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill were famous for their collegial relationship, Lyndon Johnson was well-known for deft arm-twisting to get votes on both sides of the aisle, filibusters--or the threat of them--were never business as usual. A senate majority was 51 votes. Maybe we should just throw in the towel and carve up the country by socio-political zones into two or three new ones. I won't have to move, and there's a Cascadia flag all ready to go.
There used to be these circles of idealogy that overlapped in an area called compromise. Over time I think the left has shifted right, but the right has shifted right so much more quickly those circles don't overlap anymore. And there is no overlapping area to compromise in anymore. What's worse is I think many structure their ideologies these days not so much on what they believe in but just so there is no area of overlap to compromise in.